Instead, the paint sits more on the surface without, however, maintaining the tactile firmness identified with even
thin oil pigment.
He also arranged for Noland and Louis to visit Helen Frankenthaler's New York studio in 1953, where they were introduced to her method of soaking turpentine -
thinned oil pigment into unsized, unprimed canvas (a technique Frankenthaler herself had learned from Pollack's 1951 black - and - while stain paintings made with thinned black enamel paint).
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Using turpentine to dilute
oil paints, Frankenthaler would then pour the
thinned pigments to an unprimed and unstretched raw canvas.
As you may already know, Helen Frankenthaler was a pioneer of another technique called Color Fielding — a form of non-objective painting, that allowed for
thinned - out
oil or acrylic
pigment to be applied, often times poured and spread, directly onto the unprimed canvas.
Relying on the
thinner quality of acrylic paint compared to
oil, Nara creates each painting by adding and removing
pigment until he reaches his desired effect: a canvas made up of suspended hues that allows the figure to emerge through layers of color, inviting the viewer to stand still and enter a moment of contemplation.
Using matte
pigments mixed with turpentine rather than linseed
oil, Avery applied his colours in
thin layers with a stiff brush, creating chromatic effects of astounding subtlety, delicacy and invention.
His paintings explore richly layered images and contemporary global issues through highly experimental, labor intensive techniques with filmstrips, prints, transferred images, pared down layers of
pigment, caustic acid and
thin layers of
oil paint.
Filmstrips, prints, transferred images, pared - down layers of
pigment, caustic acid and
thin layers of
oil paint are patched together in meticulous ways to visualise speculative worlds.